From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce git-mirror, a tool for exactly mirroring another repository. Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:08 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <20060925044641.GB15757@spearce.org> <20061031174225.3c7c1e77.vsu@altlinux.ru> <7vac3covlf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 01:08:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-18-116.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gf4aV-0000Wc-VV for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:16 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423824AbWKABIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:08:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423906AbWKABIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:08:13 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60133 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423824AbWKABIM (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:08:12 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gf4aL-0000UZ-Jb for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:05 +0100 Received: from host-81-190-18-116.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.18.116]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:05 +0100 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-18-116.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:08:05 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sergey Vlasov writes: > >> BTW, I was thinking about the possibility to save removed refs under, >> e.g., refs/old/`date -I`/; maybe even non-fast-forward refs could be >> saved there - this will ensure that no object will ever disappear from >> the mirror, no matter what is done on the master side. Obviously, in >> this case remote refs like refs/old/* should be filtered. > > I do not think that belongs to git-mirror. It might be better to > have that option in update-ref machinery so that you would even > be protected from a `git branch -d` ran by mistake. Perhaps just don't remove log when branch is deleted. I tend for example to be careful when reordering commits on a branch, and use git branch -f instead of deleting and recreating branch to not lose reflog. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git